Ever since my husband and I honeymooned in Italy, the country and its food has had a special place in my heart. #PurelyItalianAcookbook is a great collection of authentic, approachable Italian recipes. It calls for the fresh, quality ingredients that seem in line with the Italian meals I loved during my travels. It focuses on quality ingredients over a quantity of ingredients. I like how this cookbook is organized with the difficulty level and prep time listed before each recipe. I also enjoyed reading the description/background paragraph on the dishes. I think many of these recipes will become staples in my house.

Thank you to #NetGalley and #BooksGoSocial for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

To be fair i was a little disappointed with this book. I love Italian food as does my family. Unfortunately, this book offered me nothing new. The recipes were simple and easy to follow. But the photography looked dated and there wasn't a great range of recipes.
My advice would be if you already have Italian cookbook then don't bother. If however it's your first then it is a good one to start with.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this ARC.

The photos in this book are beautiful and many of the recipes seem tempting to make. However, the measurements don’t work well for American cooks and there are many typos throughout. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

As an International woman living in Italy I can say that the recipes that were written in this book are as real as they can be. What I find interesting is that the author has used the tried and tested recipes that Italians use in every day cooking. I would highly recommend this book to my American and International friends worldwide.

I was very disappointed to see that all of the measurements were in the metric system. American cooks want American measurements. Sorry, we're just picky that way. If you have to dig out a conversion kit to figure out each little ingredient and how much to add... meh, it's too much of a bother. Hopefully, this will be converted for the American audience.

I adore Italian food and I'm always looking for cool and simple recipes to add to my ever growing collection. This is a solid addition to any kitchen as it offers versatile (and yummy) dishes!

I would like to thank the publisher and netgalley for providing me a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

Lots of pasta sauces, I did get a really good pesto. Well organized with great photos that help out a lot because the food names are very Italian so you need the photos to know what it is.

This Italian cuisine e-cookbook is a delight. Not only does it include beautiful photos of the recipes, easy-to-follow directions, a notation about the costs of preparation and about difficulty of recipe, it also includes a brief, but fascinating, history of the origins of each dish. This feature gives the reader a glimpse into Italian culture and history that alone would make this book worth purchasing. Two caveats, however, for American buyers; at least the edition that I received as an advance copy, does not include oven temperatures in Fahrenheit and most measurements are in grams. However, given one can easily use the Internet to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, etc, this should not cause too much inconvenience. For vegetarian and vegan cooks, this book includes multiple main dishes and soups that work for you, and many more recipes that easily could be made either vegetarian or vegan. Although I wish the book had included nutritional information, it is still a great addition for anyone interested in traditional Italian cuisine.

I am looking for good recipes that I can start cooking at home and I found this book to be something I wanted to try. This book was just what I was looking for and found it easy to follow. I do think if you are looking to start cooking more Italian dishes at home then this is a good book to start with.

The introduction to this book says it best: "This book is a celebration of Italian cuisine. As you will see, Italian food isn't hard to cook, allowing even a beginner to produce great meals with little effort."

As a half-Italian who a) looks Italian, and b) has an Italian name, one would think I'm a far better cook than I actually am. Instead, I'm a college student who can fumble through carbonara and desperately pray for assistance with anything more difficult. Purely Italian cookbook was super helpful with some basic recipes that I wouldn't have been able to master on word-of-mouth alone, and is written in a concise way so it was easy to follow. Additionally, it didn't require any crazy ingredients or magic kitchen appliances, which was important for a beginner and college student budget. All in all, I'll continue using this book-- especially the tiramisu ;)

Beautiful Italian food to try out for yourself using this book. Photographs are vibrant and appealing, easy to follow format and with excellent results. Although I love hardback cookery books, this is my first e-cookery book I shall be using it frequently, I am converted. Actually managed the risotto., another first. Thank you #NetGalley for the copy to review.

A small but beautiful cookbook with delicious, tempting photos and easy to follow recipes. It is one I would welcome on my bookshelf for when I fancy authentic Italian food.

Lots of classic Italian recipes in here. Some that I've made before and others that I'd never even heard of. I look forward to trying out the bolognaise recipe and some of the desserts look fantastic. Very nice

I absolutely love Italian food, and I'm so excited to try a few of the recipes in Simply Italian. The recipes are straightforward with beautiful pictures.

A bright, easy to follow little cook book with classic Italian recipes. Perfect as an introduction to Italian cooking.

I was given a copy of Purely Italian, A cookbook by NetGalley and the publishers in return for an unbiased review.

I enjoyed reading this cookbook. The directions are easy to follow with ingredients that we may already have in our pantry and there are photos. I cannot wait to try these recipes out! Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and author for a gifted copy. This is my honest review.

I gave up on this cookbook shortly after flipping through a few recipes. I love Italian food, but the typos and errors in this book leave me confused and unsure. I saw one recipe calling for chili paper. Is there a such thing? Or is it a typo for chili pepper? I have no clue. Another said sb sp olive oil. I was wondering what that could mean when I noticed other recipes said tb sp instead of tbsp and assumed this one to mean tbsp, but with a typo of the first t and with that confusing space between the letters. I don't want to have to decipher what these things mean while trying to learn a new dish. I also did not like the measurements being in g and ml most of the time. For these reasons I did not like this recipe book and have rated it two stars.

Excellent Italian cookbook filled with traditional common Italian recipes made with easy to find ingredients. Filled with 30 of the most popular breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert dishes with pictures of each recipe.

Easy to follow Italian recipes with mouth watering photos.
There are lots of recipes listing all the ingredients and I can’t wait to try them.
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Being half Italian, I am always looking for inspiration with Italian food

This is what I would call a good beginners book with the recipes here. I found it very reminiscent of recipes taught to me by my nonna - highly complimentary

I loved the simplicity of the ingredients as this is very much what I was taught growing up. Its all about simple, few, but the best ingredients then you can't go wrong with the results.

Its a book I would keep in the background and I think its nice to have these recipes written down unlike lots of my nonnas recipes which are not !!!